Hirune Hime’s Cast and Crew

Arata Furuta as Watanabe, the CEO of Shijima Automobiles, who is planning to trick Kokone’s father

Tomoya Maeno as Kijita, a friend and bad influence on Kokone’s father

Hideki Takahashi as Isshin Shijima, the president of Shijima Automobiles

Yosuke Eguchi as Momotarō, Kokone’s father

Rie Kugimiya as Joy, the stuffed Shiba Inu toy friend of Kokone

I.G Port’s new anime studio subsidiary, Signal.MD is most notably animating the film as its first anime film project. Kenji Kamiyama is directing as well as writing the film. Satoko Morikawa is designing the characters, and Shigeto Koyama is in charge of mechanical design. Furthermore, animator Christophe Ferreiraconfirmed that he is working on the film’s concept art, storyboards, and animation.

Atsuko Sasaki is serving as key animation director coupled with animation directors Motonobu Hori, Toshiyuki Kono, and Kazuchika Kise. Yumi Katayama is handling the color design. Kiyoshi Samejima and Kaori Hino are the art directors, Noriki Tsukamoto is the 3D director, Hiroshi Tanaka is the director of photography, and Shoji Hata is the sound director. In addition, Yoko Shimomura is composing the music for the film. Warner Bros. Japan will distribute the film.

The Story of Hirune Hime

The film’s teaser poster. The text reads “Why can’t we sleep like this all day long?” and “That dream is connected to my family’s secret.”

The film is set in the Okayama prefecture in 2020, just before the Tokyo Olympics. The story is described by Kamiyama as one of a father and daughter that is close to his personal feelings.

So what do you think? Are you excited for this especially new and original movie? Interested to see what sort of story Kenji Kamiyama has to tell instead? Or conversely, will it be disappointing like his previous directing and writing effort with 009 Re:Cyborg? Let us know below.